Later this month, Glasgow is set to host the first Scotland-based festival dedicated exclusively to Eastern European cinema.
Samizdat will begin on September 27, lasting until October 1. Taking its name from the practice of secret distribution of censored texts in communist states, Samizdat will include a diverse programme of retrospectives and new films.
Hosted at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, and also streaming online, all content has been produced within Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Events also include panel discussions for some productions.
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Samizdat organisers hope to ensure the line-up can be seen by as many people as possible, with film screenings priced on a sliding scale. Attendees are invited to pay per film based on their preference and ability.
A screening of Salt for Svanetia will be shown with a score performed live, and will be priced differently. Each film will be shown with subtitles, and some screened with descriptive subtitles.
On opening night, the festival will premiere My Twentieth Century, a film which tells the tale of two impoverished twin girls who are separated from each other and come back together in later life. On September 28, About Life will be shown - a film which tells of a woman's turmoil as she tries to organise her fathers funeral.
On closing night they’ll be showing Staffroom, which is a movie focusing on a woman who begins working as a counsellor at a high school and begins taking charge of the staffroom.
Samizdat is supported by Film Hub Scotland, funded by Screen Scotland and also received funding from the National Lottery and the European Cultural Foundation. Virtual screenings will be found online on streaming platform Klassiki - the world's only curated streaming platform for films for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
More information on the events can be found here.
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